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ligious feelings, their reference of the world to an 

 intelligent Creator and Preserver, their admira- 

 tion of his attributes, were exalted rather than 

 impaired by the insight which they obtained into 

 the structure of the universe. 



Having shown this with regard to the most 

 perfect portion of human knowledge, our know- 

 ledge of the motions of the solar system, we shall 

 adduce a few other passages, illustrating the 

 prevalence of the same fact in other departments 

 of experimental science ; although, for reasons 

 which have already been intimated, we conceive 

 that sciences of experiment do not conduct so 

 obviously as sciences of observation to the im- 

 pression of a Divine Legislator of the material 

 world. 



The science of Hydrostatics was constructed 

 in a great measure by the founders of the sister 

 science of Mechanics. Of those who were em- 

 ployed in experimentally establishing the prin- 

 ciples peculiarly belonging to the doctrine of 

 fluids, Pascal and Boyle are two of the most 

 eminent names. That these two great philoso- 

 phers were not only religious, but both of them 

 remarkable for their fervent and pervading de- 

 votion, is too well known to be dwelt on. With 

 regard to Pascal, however, we ought not perhaps 

 to pass over an opinion of his, that the existence 

 of God cannot be proved from the external world. 

 44 I do not undertake to prove this," says he, 



